I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

We are all giants, raised by pygmies, who have learned to walk with a perpetual mental crouch.

If you want to become a concert pianist, do it every day. You want to be a writer, do it every day. You want to become depressed, think depressing thoughts every day. You want to become an optimist, think a cheerful thought every day. Do it every day.

"Is," "is," "is" — the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.

The things that hinder me are opportunities to learn more and develop further.

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse.